Deadly documents : technical communication, organizational discourse, and the Holocaust : lessons from the rhetorical work of everyday texts / Mark Ward, Sr. ; afterward by Steven B. Katz.
| Author/creator | Ward, Mark, 1958- |
| Other author | Katz, Steven B. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Amityville, New York : Baywood Publishing Company, 2014. |
| Description | x, 252 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Baywood's Technical Communication Series |
| Contents | Chapter 1: Can genocide be regulated? -- An ontological shift -- Revisiting the Final Solution -- Sample, method, and chapter organization -- The importance of the study -- Chapter 2: From Darwin to death wagons -- Origins of European anti-Semitism -- The rise of racial anti-Semitism -- Development of the gas vans -- Operational challenges in the field -- Chapter 3: The people's community -- Organizations as open systems -- Unifying principles of institutional cuture -- Aspects of SS organizational culture -- Lines of organizational authority -- German bureaucratic document protocols -- Chapter 4: The participants and their motives -- Personnel of the gas van program -- Individual relationships and motives -- Chapter 5: Documents for destruction -- Setting up the analyses -- Introducing the documents -- Chapter 6: A community of killers -- Constructing the rhetorical community -- A "safety" narrative and protean metaphors -- Discovering organizational genres in the texts -- Rehetorical community in organizational contexts -- Visuality in the rhetorical community -- Chapter 7: Discourse of death -- What discourse analysis can add -- The killers' use of linguistic resources -- Reconstructing an organizational discourse -- Chapter 8: Revisiting "expediency" -- Boundary work in action -- Lanzmann and the "why" question -- Implications of the Lanzmann alterations -- Chapter 9: Bridging the boundaries -- An ahistorical consensus -- Expendiency without ethics -- Protecting rhetoric and rhetoricians -- Safeguarding science and civilization -- Converging on a comfortable distance -- What the orderings may reveal -- Chapter 10: Some ethical implications -- A bias for explanation -- Prescriptive and descriptive ethics -- Afterward: The reality of words and their aftermaths. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780895038029 |
| ISBN | 0895038021 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | T10.65.G3 W37 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |